Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-09-23
STATE NEWS CONDENSED.

Sheboygan is to have new city hall.
Small grain is yielding well in Shawano
county.
Ripon papers report their saloons as
running full blast Sundays.
Horace Rublee, editor of the Milwau.
kee Sentinel, Is visiting in Colorado.
Twenty five million fest of lumber
await shipment at tAshland.
The fire alarm telegraph system is lust
being put in use in Eau Claire.
| The Free Nethosists are holding their
annual camp meeting near Baraboo.
The season is practically over at Ocono-
mowoc, and the hotels are refusing
guests.
special election was held at Lake
| Geneva, Saturday, to decide whethe er to
have water works.
| Brick" Pomeroy of newspaper fame,
Is down on the delinquent personal tax
list of La Crosse for SS5.l9.
| Two bears visited the apiary of d
| Hoxie, west of Waupaca, and helped
| themselves to the honey of several hives
| About 150 veterans of Milwaukee will
attend the encampment at St. Louis, and
about 1000 from all portions of the
| state.
The district attorney of Racine county
denies that nolle will be entered in the
Jambor case, butsays it will come TO trial
at the OctC Der term.
j. +. Ware, state senator for the eigh-
teenth district, has decided to locate at
West Superior, and will move to that
place in few weeks.
Though the Columbia county fair paid
for itself, the society is $500 in debt.
The state appropriation of $500 will re-
duce the shortage to $3.50.
The farmers of La Crosse county have
organized an agricultural, horticultural
and dairyman's association.
The report that Bullock & Co, the firm
putting in the water works at Stevens
Point, had failed, is denied.
On Sept. %, Miss Flora Erskine
daughter of NJ. B. Erskine, of Racine,
will be married to Herbert L. Miles, sec
retary of the Racine Wagon and Carriage
company.
The aggregate product of cheese of
Green county is larger this year than
last, Notwithstanding the drought. Dur
ing the past three months, 950.000 pounds
have been shipped from Monroe alone.
A tramp at Beloit quarreled with
horse trader ana shot at him. The bullet
however, hit horse instead of the man,
and the tramp escaped on passing
freight train.
In appointing the clerks and ins pectors
of election Mayor Wallber has recognized
the leading parties by giving each one a
representative in every ward in Milwau
kee.
The directors of the Wisconsin Indus
trial Association of Racine will be ready
to make report in a few days. The fair
year would not have come out much be-
hind, but $400 has been paid for three
years insurance, $500 on note, and this
will no doubt leave the society about 81,
900 in debt.
John Plankinton, of Milwaukee, al
ways wears his hat on the back of his
head. He is frank and blunt in inter
course, and Is a most lndulgert man to
solicitors of all kinds.
The business men of Manitowoc have
formed an anti-dead beat society. Those
who trust a party with the reputation of
being dead beat or one who does not
pay his bills, will be subject TO fine of
| $40.
President Morrison, of the Wisconsin
| Dairymen's association, figures 1t that
| Wisconsin is to be the first state in the
union in the dairy business. AT present
the state has 650,00O cows, that produce
| 50,0000O0 pounds of butter and 10000,
600 pounds of cheese annually.